Inauguration Day, 2017: your public servants in the Obama administration continually working for you, down to the last possible minute
Right up to the morning of Inauguration Day 2017. So dedicated!
Most people are not even aware of this, because the MSM doesn’t cover it for the most part, and when they do it’s to act as though such behavior is normal. It’s not even remotely normal, and in fact I’d wager nothing like it has ever happened before. Surveilling the incoming first family? Surveilling the new administration in the waning minutes of the old administration? It should shock and outrage everyone.
But even if it were to be made crystal clear that it was completely abnormal, the MSM will continue to pretend it’s either normal, or justified in this case because the Trumps are all in league with Russia.
That’s how lies work – they feed on each other to form a seamless whole that offers an excuse for every offense.
The next thing I’m going to mention might seem to be a side issue, but it’s not. Last night I had heard something about the Obama administration unmasking people on Inauguration Day, and also about unmasking the Trump family (not clear when that happened), but I didn’t know the details. So I tried to Google it today, in an effort to get more information. I did a search just now for “obama unmasked trump family inauguration day.” The first article listed was this one from Fox, a very general announcement from five days ago about the release of the basic unmasking information, and expressing a neutral attitude and the idea that only Republicans are interested in this (and I guess, in a way, that’s the case).
The second article in the Google search was this one from NBC entitled “Trump allies push ‘Obamagate,’ but record fails to back them up: Trump and his supporters have charged that Barack Obama and Joe Biden conspired against Michael Flynn, but there’s no hard evidence to support the claims.” Not exactly responsive to my query, to say the least. But apparently it’s the sort of thing Google wishes readers to see. In fact, the entire first two pages of Google’s listings in that search are the tales told by the left, and it isn’t till I got to the bottom of page 2 that I found the first pro-Trump source (this).
And none of the Googled articles were actually responsive to my query, whether they were anti-Trump (the vast majority) or pro.
The list makes clear that Google’s algorithm yields the stories the left wishes to push. Google will say, of course, that the algorithm is based on something entirely different than that goal. But it clearly works that way and there is no reason to imagine it is not intentional, as well as useful for the left. It also is much less specific than it used to be in pointing the reader to articles relevant to his/her search, whether they be from left or right.
In contrast, DuckDuckGo is spot on. Here’s the search I did there. You can see for yourself (although of course it will change over time) that the list is specific to my quest. I only have looked at the first 10 articles, but that’s enough. They are all about Trey Gowdy’s interview or about things connected with what was revealed, and highly relevant. There were plenty of sources on the right – of course, because the story is only being reported on the right, as far as I can tell.
That’s no surprise either. The coverage of this one little fact stands as a good example of the coverage as a whole. I talk a lot about the press here, and there’s a reason for that – and the search engine Google has become part of the press. In terms of numbers, the influence of the MSM and things like Google’s algorithm have an enormous effect on public perceptions.
The polls might say that people don’t trust the press, but it doesn’t matter. It’s like advertising – the propaganda influences people whether they are aware of it or not. And if they don’t hear about a story, if it can’t even be found on Google despite pointed effort, it’s like that tree falling in an uninhabited forest.
We have seen recently a significant number of egregious miscarriages of justice by highly partisan judges, e.g. Berman Jackson in the case of Roger Stone, Sullivan in the case of Flynn, and Eric Moye in the affair of the Texan hair-stylist. These are only the latest examples of the undermining of the founding principles of our republic from leftists, and the misbehavior of the FBI and the DOJ under Obama was merely a prelude to a full assault on the foundations of the Anglo-American legal system.
I see discrepancies like this often when searching for politically relevant news. As time goes by many things seem to simply disappear.
The left needs to be protected from anything that might tarnish their messiah.
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Soros’ idea to dump money on local District Attorney’s races is/was very smart. A small amount of money on each race can yield significant results, especially since those races don’t typically receive much campaign funding. If one wants to spend $1M to sway political outcomes, $100k on 10, big city D.A. races has a greater impact on the future than $1M spent on one campaign.
Rufus T. Firefly
‘Things get lost, happens all the time.’ Judge Emmet Sullivan (close to what he said). That was of course the AWOL Flynn 302 original.
Who knew that Emmet was moonlighting for Google as a algorithm wizard. 🙂
The ever-classy Nancy Pelosi seems to have search-engine problems of her own.
While looking at Jerry Nadler, she called Trump “morbidly obese”.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/19/politics/nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-fat-hydroxychloroquine/index.html
It is further reported that while looking at Joe Biden, she called Trump “morbidly corrupt”.
While looking at Barack Obama, she called Trump “morbidly dishonest”.
While looking in the mirror, she called Trump “morbidly morbid.”
So maybe she should start using duckduckgo?
I stopped using google totally for searches about 18 months ago. I use only DuckDuckGo, and am happy with it. Totally.
Your enemies’ propaganda can be frustrating but always remember where propaganda ultimately leads…the old Soviet Union, which went from being the 2nd most powerful civilization on Earth to nonexistence in practically a few weeks.
When your enemy gives you exclusive use of the truth, be grateful.
Mike
Rufus T. Firefly on May 19, 2020 at 4:55 pm said:
I see discrepancies like this often when searching for politically relevant news. As time goes by many things seem to simply disappear.
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Have I got a website for you!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/altcensored-website-fights-censorship-hosting-deleted-youtube-videos/
The results I get at Bing.com are just about as good as duckduckgo.com.
google is for lazy low-info people who don’t even know how to change their search engine.
Dear Neo: love your site. Please keep it up, especially on dance and on justice. I am clueless about the first and your perspective helps to inform me, enormously. I have half a clue about the second and your perspective helps to correct me, again enormously.
I think we are going through very strange times with the Russiagate/Flynn stuff. I am truly gobsmacked at what Judge Sullivan is trying to pull off. But in Sidney Powell I think he has found a most worthy adversary. (Makes you wonder what Covington & Burling was doing to help Flynn while draining him of millions for “legal services”).
Trump called it, correctly, that Obama was “spying” on him.
“Collusion”, meaning talking & discussing things, is not illegal, and was never illegal. “Conspiracy” is only illegal when the conspirators are conspiring to commit a crime.
Illegally leaking Flynn’s name is a crime, but most of the rest of the immoral stuff was merely in violation of FBI rules. Maybe some of them are crimes, but it’s not clear.
The unmasking is immoral but likely not illegal.
The big crimes were by Sec. Clinton with her illegal server, and the illegal destruction of evidence about it – the Obama / Comey coverup of Clinton’s crimes.
The Democratic media, like the Dem colleges and the Dem entertainment, will continue with their irrational Derangement Syndrome. Even after Trump, but it’s crucial for America and the “Free World” that Trump gets re-elected. And it’s not clear that he will be. Because of the Dem orgs against all Reps.
AesopFan,
Thanks for the information about altCensored. Very interesting.
I understand that to receive an unmasking, you must submit a form to NSA stating that you have a legitimate intelligence need for the name, explaining the reason, and signing the form. If that is correct, stating that you had a valid intelligence purpose when you didn’t, is filling a false official statement, which is a federal felony.